Ultrastructural analysis of spinal motoneurones from mice treated with IgG from ALS patients, healthy individuals, or disease controls

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 35-45

  Pullen, A H ^a   Humphreys, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ALS; Cytopathology; Motoneurone; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NISSL SUBSTANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, ROUGH; FEMALE; GOLGI APPARATUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0034327381     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(00)00427-5     Document Type: Article

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